Indus water treaty: Modi’s manufactured crisesApril 24, 2025 It did not take long for the fallout from the latest handshake between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra…
Trump’s new world disorderApril 22, 2025 The second coming of Donald Trump to the Oval Office has not been a quiet affair. It has been loud,…
Whispers of polio grow louderApril 21, 2025 Sindh stood at the threshold of a historic milestone—poised to be declared polio-free after maintaining nearly three consecutive years without…
No policy is Afghan policyApril 20, 2025 There is a temptation to reduce Pakistan’s fraught relationship with Afghanistan to a familiar formula: terrorism, border security, and refugee…
South Asia’s shifting sandsApril 19, 2025 In the high theatre of South Asian politics, alliances are rarely permanent, loyalties are often transactional, and history never truly…
Dragon and elephant allianceApril 17, 2025 In the slow-moving theatre of global power, it is not always the loudest players who write the future. Sometimes, the…
Ratings not reflection of people’s sufferingApril 16, 2025 The announcement that Fitch Ratings has upgraded Pakistan’s long-term foreign and local currency credit rating from CCC+ to B-, while…
Financial figures: Illusion or real?April 15, 2025 In Pakistan, the art of economic reporting has long been entangled in the subtle craft of performance. Numbers—those simple figures—are…
The fallacy of US infallibilityApril 14, 2025 In recent weeks, the echoes of recklessness in American policy have grown louder, reverberating across the corridors of power and…
Gaza on the edge of erasureApril 12, 2025 There is a geography to suffering, and Gaza has become its most terrifying map. Every inch of its territory, once…